Press quotes

  • Ireland goes on offensive to counter US tax haven claims
    The Telegraph, 28 May 2013

    "That was a blindside for Ireland Inc. because we always thought we were on the same page as Anglo-American capitalism. We thought it would stick up for us," said Hugo Brady, senior research fellow at the CER.

  • The collapse of the carbon market
    Financial Times, 23 May 2013

    In economic terms a carbon tax is clearly the most effective and simplest way of encouraging the shift to a low carbon economy. Of course the level of the tax matters. Stephen Tindale, in an excellent paper for the CER, suggests a floor price of 30 euros a tonne.

  • Les tensions s'avivent au sein de la "troïka"
    Le Monde, 21 May 2013

    "Pour ces pays, c'est aussi scandaleux que d'imaginer les Etats-Unis réclamer l'aide du FMI pour sauver la Californie", pointe Simon Tilford du "think tank" européen, CER, basé à Londres. ... "C'est triste. Cela ne fait qu'accentuer l'euroscepticisme" conclut Simon Tilford.

  • Dublin fears rise in cross-border crime if UK opt out of EU rules
    Financial Times, 20 May 2013

    "Police on both sides of the Irish Sea – as well as either side of the border – fear a return to the days when Ireland's supreme court would refuse extradition of terrorist suspects", says Hugo Brady of the CER.

  • Thinking the unthinkable: Quitting a currency
    The Wall Street Journal, 19 May 2013

    "Just the sheer enormity of quitting the euro has so far militated against a surge in support to leave," says Simon Tilford of the CER. Once people feel there is no light at the end of the tunnel, however, "we'll probably start to see a more open debate about the costs and benefits of remaining in the single currency," he says.

  • Europa desgarra a los 'tories'
    El Pais, 18 May 2013

    Philip Whyte, investigador del CER, discrepa de esa visión. En un estudio titulado ¿Perjudican los vínculos europeos de Gran Bretaña su prosperidad? concluye que muchos de los argumentos económicos euroescépticos son "engañosos" y que los problemas de la economía británica "no tienen nada que ver con las cargas burocráticas de la UE".

  • Recession causes grief for Hollande on election anniversary
    The Globe and Mail, 17 May 2013

    "France's economy stacks up well among European countries", says Simon Tilford of the CER. Economic growth has been better than most eurozone countries since the financial crisis; productivity is higher, as is foreign investment.

  • Euro crisis mires continent in longest slump since war
    The Wall Street Journal, 16 May 2013

    "Financial markets have become more sanguine than a year ago, but the underlying problems of the euro zone haven't been fixed," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the CER, a London-based think tank.

  • Coping with China's slowdown
    European Voice, 16 May 2013

    Charles Grant, director of the CER, is certainly right when he says that EU negotiators have a poor record using their leverage as China's main trading partner in getting China "to do what they want", especially opening up its own markets to EU firms and combating intellectual property theft.

  • As Europe struggles, the Franco-German alliance turns testy
    The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2013

    It’s also symbolically disconcerting for the identity of Europe. Hugo Brady of the CER, says that the breakdown is one of the biggest challenges the union faces today."If there isn't a France-German alliance, it’s the end of the Europe we’ve known for 50 years.”